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Harvard University. A fund of $50,000 is to 
be used to defray the expenses of descendants 
of the family at Harvard College. If not re- 
quired it is to be spent for the general purposes 
of the College. The balance of the money is to 
be used for the Medical School. Miss Lucy 
Ellis, a sister of Dr. Ellis has now bequeathed 
about $90,000, the money to be added to the 
fund left by Dr. Ellis. 
Provost C. HARRISON, of the University of 
Pennsylvania, announces a gift of $50,000 from 
an anonymous donor, the money to be used for 
the cost of erection of that part of the dormitory 
system already begun. 
By the will of the late John H. Sessions, $25, - 
000 is bequeathed to Wesleyan University, Mid- 
dletown, Conn. 
THE Iowa Wesleyan University has received 
a gift of $10,000 from Ex-Senator James Harlan. 
THE last session of the Michigan Legislature 
raised the tax for the support of the State Uni- 
versity from one-sixth to one-fourth of a mill of 
each dollar of assessed valuation, thus increas- 
ing the annual income by a little over $92,000. 
THE British Medical Journal gives the follow- 
ing statistics in regard to the universities of 
France. These are fifteen in number and to- 
gether have a total of 27,080 students, of whom 
12,059 belong to Paris. The total expenditure 
is 13,859,500 francs, so that the average cost of 
the education of each student is 511 franes. 
To meet this expense the universities have 
revenues amounting collectively to 2,093,700 
francs; legacies, donations, ete., amount to 
1,511,600 franes ; therefore a deficit of 10,524,- 
200 franes, has each year to be made up by the 
State. 
AMONG the candidates for the Chair of Nat- 
ural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow 
are Mr. C. T. R. Wilson, Mr. J. A. M’Clelland 
and Mr. G. F. C. Searle, all demonstrators in 
the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge; Mr. 
John Sealy Townsend, Cambridge ; Mr. George 
W. Walker, Cambridge; Professor Andrew 
Gray, University College, North Wales; Pro- 
fessor J. C. Beattie, Cape Town, and Mr. Car- 
gill Gilston Knott, Edinburgh University. 
Since Mr. R. M. Wenley, Ph.D. (Glasgow), 
LN. S. Von. X. No. 250. 
Se.D., F.R.S. (Edinburgh), was appointed to 
the headship of the philosophical department 
in the University of Michigan, the teaching 
staff has been doubled and now numbers six. 
Among recent appointments are Mr. Alfred H. 
Lloyd, Ph.D. (Harvard), to be junior professor 
of philosophy; Mr. W. B. Pillsbury, Ph.D. 
(Cornell), to be director of the Laboratory of 
Experimental Psychology ; Mr. Carl V. Tower, 
Ph.D. (Cornell), to be instructor in philosophy, 
and Mr, J. W. Slaughter, A.B. (Lombard), to 
be assistant in psychology and philosophy. 
Dr. ALonzo HE. TAYLOR, assistant director of 
the Pepper Laboratory of the University of 
Pennsylvania, has been elected professor of 
pathology in the medical department of the 
University of California. 
Dr. HENRY 8S. Monrog, dean of the faculty 
of applied sciences of Columbia University, has: 
resigned on account of ill health. He is suc- 
ceeded by Professor F. H. Hutton. 
L. F. WALTER and H. Fisher have been ap- 
pointed assistants in chemistry in Columbia. 
University. 
PROFESSOR RICHARD Morris, superintendent. 
of public schools in Dunellen, N. J., has been 
appointed professor of mathematics at Rutger’s 
College. 
Ezra F. SCATTERGOOD, instructor in elec- 
tricity and physicsin Rutger’s College, has been 
appointed professor of physics in the Atlanta. 
School of Technology. 
VACANCIES in the chemical and electrical de- 
partments of the University of Vermont have 
been filled by the appointment of C. E. Jacobs, 
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
and W. H. Freedman, of Columbia University. 
Mr. A. G. ASHCROFT has been appointed as- 
sistant professor of engineering at the Central 
College of the City and Guilds of London In- 
stitute. 
Tue Rey. J. F. Cross, B.A. Cambridge, M.A., 
Toronto, has been made professor of mathe- 
matics at St. John’s University, Winnipeg. 
Dr. K. ECKHARDT, professor of physiology 
at Giessen, has celebrated the fiftieth anniver-- 
sary of his activity as a university teacher. 
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